I often combine many things here and do use the word " chat " liberally as I feel it is like being face-to-face with you and that I am chatting in an unedited, unscripted fashion thus more relaxed and intimate and revealing. I want to tell and share through words and pictures the stories behind things almost casually. I hope it is heart-felt. I add when and where I am to fix them in my time.

WOW! THERE'S A WHOLE LOT GOING ON today here at Cleveland Park Wines
& Spirits as well as in Cleveland Park our neighborhood. many of the local
Cleveland Park businesses just got together across the street at the Four
Fields restaurant/pub and are working hard as a unified unit to do what we
can to support/bolster and improve our already excellent neighborhood of
homes and shops/restaurants/ physical fitness center, etcetera. It was
really well-attended and you could feel the energy, excitement and
enthusiasm for working as a team to do what we can to further support our
community and make it flourish and go to the next step of it's potential.
This is a very positive and encouraging time. I took pictures ( when don't
I take them?!? This time, however I asked first ) and will include them on
my blog both at our " new " and exciting web page at :
www.clevelandparkwine.com as well as on my blog spot :
chatwine.blogspot.com.

THE NEW WEB PAGE IS LIKE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR and it will be fun to
work on daily and to add pictures and write a blog right there as the
winemakers/owners and other interesting people come through our front door
on a daily basis. If they have a SPECIAL OF THE DAY then I will include it
on the web page. Be sure and try and check it out at least weekly so that
you can take full advantage of both weekly as well as daily specials.

I WILL POST FROM NOW ON " Daily Specials " ON THE BLOG on our web
page at : www.clevelandparkwine.com. As I have just said some will be good
for the duration of the product mentioned : once I run out then the price
reverts back to the old one. Sometimes this means that I will have only 6
cases or four cases and five bottles or more of course. I don't mind though
because it means that you will all benefit while supplies last. You can see
these listed in the " Specials " section of our web page.

THE AUSSIE & KIWI INVASION of winemakers and owners was one big ,
grand success and it sure was great to host five of them : three from
Australia and two from New Zealand. Things just fell into place as they
happened. Much of it was a sure thing but the two winemakers/owners from
New Zealand was a " maybe " that thankfully materialized very well here
Saturday night and basically finished just before we closed the doors at
9:30PM. We had :

THESE TWO EVENTS were both really well-attended and the wines showed
masterfully and we sold lots of them on each evening. Thanks everyone of
you for having been here and poured.

WE ALSO HAD ASSISTS from Arielle Monaco, Liz Mencel and David
Faulkner all of whom work with Country Vintner imports. Thank you one and
all for helping us to pull this fabulous event off. Go to :
chatwine.blogspot.com , chataustralia. blogspot.com and
chatpoetry.blogspot.com to get more of all of this - as well as to our web
page at : www.clevelandparkwine.com. With time all will have additional
info to fill out the details and descriptions of these excellent Aussie and
Kiwi wines.

THESE WINES and more from the portfolio are all available for
purchase here at Cleveland Park Wines & Spirits. Call Mike Martin or Tony
Quinn to reserve and buy whichever wines you want.

2) Macon " Loche " 2007 ( $17.99 ) from Celine & Laurent TRIPOZ, is
an excellent, flavorful, tasty Chardonnay from burgundy and specifically
from the town of Loche. It will make you hungry though with it's mineral
overtones.

5) SANTA CAROLINA'S Chile " Reserva " Carmenere ( San Rafael ),
$9.99 is a great, great deal at $10! Mike just tried it again yesterday and
bought it immediately. It comes in wooden boxes that you can use around the
house afterward.

Thursday, Sept. 24th, 2009 : Dinner at Chef Geoffs at 3201 New Mexico
Avenue N.W. at 7 PM for $69.99 ( plus tax and gratuity ) per person for an
evening with Roger Goulart Spanish sparkling cavas ( Penedes ). It's a
five-course meal with five sparkling Spanish cavas - all excellent. We are
thrilled to have them here at Cleveland Park. We sold out so we are
ordering more. You all seemed to like them very much. Guest speaker : Paul
Doble will be on hand to answer and to illumimate and bring both the food
and the wines to their perfect pitches and harmonies sepaerately and once
combined to create the " Magic " when this happens. The menu to follow in a
sepaerate email tomorrow or at least added to our web page at :
www.clevelandparkwine.com. There are still ten places available for this
dinner. Calll ASAP : ( 202 ) 237-7800. Cheers ... see you there.

FRIDAY, Sept. 25th, 2009 : Lauren of BOXWOOD Winery will be here from
5-8 PM to taste her two excellent Virginia reds.

Saturday, September, 2009 : Sotiris Bafitis will be here to taste his
excellent Greek wines : whites, rose and reds. He will be here from 3-7 PM.

I AM SURE I HAVE FORGOTTEN SOMETHING but it's time to send this
email. Do look at our web page tomorrow as I will be adding the dinners we
are working on.

In the News

When you think American wines, your taste buds might expect something from Napa or Sonoma, but it might be time to raise a glass to Texas. Manuel Bojorquez reports on winemakers in the Lone Star State.

About Me

Spent the first half of my life overseas with my family and the second half with my wife building our family together here in the United States. ALSO : I consider myself a wine-enabler and someone that , as an artist , always likes to " add to the equation " instead of duplicating it. I love to share my passion for both art and wine and consider the two to be related and indispensable for me in living my life fully and creatively where I am not afraid to stand alone if need be.
At this stage in my life now I am launching into a new directions and have two new pursuits to help me do this : 1) I am now consulting people on the business, love and pursuit of wine both on a private and a public/ business level and so have established my new blog site for that called : chatwinebusinesssavy.blogspot.com to reach out to you , as well as 2) a " new " wine business venture importing the wines of Brazil to the United States called BRALVIN Brazilian Wine & Alcohol at : anthony@bralvin.com as well as : www.bralvin.com. Cheers,AAQ